Walter Gotell
77 movies · 45 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 15, 1924
- Died
- May 5, 1997 (age 73)
- Place of birth
- Bonn, Germany
- Also known as
- Walter Jack Gotell · Walter Jacques Goettel
Biography
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Walter Gotell (15 March 1926 – 5 May 1997) was a German actor, known for his role as General Gogol, head of the KGB, in the James Bond film series.
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Gotell was born in Bonn, Germany; his family emigrated to the United Kingdom after the Nazis came to power. A fluent English speaker, he started in films as early as 1943, usually playing German henchmen, such as in We Dive at Dawn (1943).
He began to have more established roles by the early fifties, starring in The African Queen (1951), Ice-Cold in Alex (1958), The Guns of Navarone (1961), 55 Days At Peking (1963), Lancelot and Guinevere (1963), The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1965), Lord Jim (1965), Black Sunday (1977), The Boys From Brazil (1978), and Cuba (1979).
Gotell won the role of KGB General Anatol Gogol in The Spy Who Loved Me for being a look-alike of the former head of Soviet secret police Lavrentiy Pavlovitch Beria. His first role in the James Bond films came in 1963, when he played the henchman Morzeny in From Russia with Love. Starting in the late 1970s, he played the recurring role of General Gogol in the James Bond series, beginning with The Spy Who Loved Me in 1977. The character returned in Moonraker (1979), For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983), A View to a Kill (1985) and The Living Daylights (1987). As the Cold War developed, the role of leader of the KGB was seen to change attitudes to the West - from direct competitor to collaborator. His final appearance, as the Cold War began to become less imminent, sees him transferred to a different, more diplomatic role. Gotell is one of a few actors to have played a villain and a Bond ally in the film series (others being Joe Don Baker, Charles Gray and Richard Kiel).
Throughout his career, Gotell also made numerous guest appearances in a wide array of television series. He played Chief Constable Cullen in Softly, Softly: Taskforce between 1969 and 1975. He guested in many series including Danger Man, Knight Rider, The A-Team, Airwolf, The X-Files, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, MacGyver, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Miami Vice, Cagney and Lacey, The Saint, and many others.
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Walter Gotell: movies and TV shows
Acting (122)
- 2022 Carnage Collection - Puppet Master: Trunk Full of Terror
as General Mueller (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2018 Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre
as Nazi General (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2012 Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor
as Uncle John (archive footage)
- 2003 Puppet Master: The Legacy
as General Mueller (archive footage)
- 1997 Prince Valiant
as Erik the Old
- 1993
- 1992 Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge
as General Mueller
- 1989
- 1989 She Knows Too Much
as Foreigner
- 1988
- 1988 Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers
as Uncle John
- 1987
- 1987 The Living Daylights
as General Anatol Gogol
- 1986 Liberty
as Rabbi Goteyel
- 1986 Henry's Shadow
as Efraim Grüner
- 1986
- 1985 Basic Training
as Nabokov
- 1985
- 1985
- 1985 Lace 2
as General Zedd
- 1985 KGB: The Secret War
as Nicholai
- 1985 A View to a Kill
as General Gogol
- 1984
- 1984 Memed My Hawk
as Sgt. Asim
- 1984
- 1983
- 1983
- 1983 Kalabaliken i Bender
as Storvesiren
- 1983 Octopussy
as Gogol
- 1983 The Scarlet and the Black
as Gen. Max Helm
- 1983
- 1982
- 1982
- 1982
- 1982
- 1981 Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years · TV
as Lord Swinton / Lord Swinton (uncredited) · 3 episodes
- 1981 For Your Eyes Only
as General Anatol Gogol
- 1980 Cry of the Innocent
as Jack Brewster
- 1980 Flight Level 450
as Anchell
- 1979 The London Connection
as Simmons
- 1979 Cuba
as Don Jose Pulido
- 1979 Moonraker
as General Gogol
- 1978
- 1978 The Boys from Brazil
as Mundt
- 1978 The Stud
as Ben Khaled
- 1977
- 1977 March or Die
as Col. Lamont
- 1977 The Assignment
as Frankenheimer
- 1977 The Spy Who Loved Me
as General Anatol Gogol
- 1977 Black Sunday
as Colonel Riat
- 1974
- 1972 Our Miss Fred
as Heinrich Schmidt (uncredited)
- 1972 Endless Night
as Constantine
- 1969 Softly Softly: Task Force · TV
as Chief Constable Cullen / Chief Constable Arthur Cullen · 11 episodes
- 1969 The File of the Golden Goose
as George Leeds
- 1969
- 1968 Cry Wolf
as Ronan
- 1968
- 1968 Attack on the Iron Coast
as Van Horst
- 1965 The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
as Holten (uncredited)
- 1965
- 1965 Lord Jim
as Captain of Patna
- 1964
- 1964 The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog
as Benton
- 1963 From Russia with Love
as Morzeny
- 1963 Sword of Lancelot
as Sir Cedric
- 1963 55 Days at Peking
as Capt. Hoffman
- 1963
- 1962 The Damned
as Major Holland
- 1962
- 1962 The Longest Day
as German Soldier (uncredited)
- 1962 The Devil's Agent
as Dr. Ritter (uncredited)
- 1962
- 1962
- 1962 The Road to Hong Kong
as Dr. Zorbb
- 1962
- 1962
- 1961
- 1961 The Devil's Daffodil
as Oberinspektor Whiteside
- 1961 The Guns of Navarone
as Muesel
- 1960 Circle of Deception
as Phoney Ballard
- 1960 The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll
as Heverton - Second Gambler (uncredited)
- 1960
- 1960
- 1960 Circus of Horrors
as Baron Von Gruber
- 1960 Sink the Bismarck!
as Signals Officer Mueller on the 'Bismarck' (uncredited)
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959
- 1959 The Treasure of San Teresa
as Hamburg inspector
- 1959 Shake Hands with the Devil
as 'Black & Tans' Sergeant
- 1959 The Bandit Of Zhobe
as Azhad Khan
- 1958 I Was Monty's Double
as German Colonel
- 1958
- 1958
- 1958 The Man Inside
as Profuno
- 1958 Ice Cold in Alex
as 1st German Officer
- 1957
- 1956
- 1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much
as Matthews, Scotland Yard Patrol Car (uncredited)
- 1956 1984
as Guard (uncredited)
- 1956
- 1955 The Mysterious Bullet
as Police Constable (uncredited)
- 1955
- 1955 The Dark Avenger
as French Castle Guard (uncredited)
- 1955 Above Us the Waves
as German Officer on Tirpitz
- 1954
- 1954 Duel in the Jungle
as Jim
- 1953 Albert R.N.
as Feldwebel
- 1953 The Red Beret
as German Sentry
- 1953 Desperate Moment
as Ravitch's Servant-Henchman
- 1952 The African Queen
as Second Officer
- 1951 Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Disappeared
as Luzatto
- 1950 Lilli Marlene
as Director of Propaganda
- 1950 The Wooden Horse
as François - The Follower
- 1950 Cairo Road
as Prison Officer
- 1950
- 1948 No Orchids for Miss Blandish
as uncredited
- 1943 We Dive at Dawn
as Luftwaffe Captain
- 1943 Tomorrow We Live
as Hans
- 1942 Secret Mission
as Lieutenant Langfeld
- 1942 The Goose Steps Out
as SS Guard
Talk shows and appearances (3)
- 2000
- 1991
- 1988